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ggus | 11 months ago

Agree. TypeScript is primarily a programming language. Did they make the language faster? No. Hence, the title is misleading.

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hansifer|11 months ago

That's debatable. I think most people that work with TS see it as a syntax extension for JS. Do you think JSX is a programming language?

mmcnl|11 months ago

For anyone who uses TypeScript on a daily basis it's not ambiguous at all. Everyone who works with TS knows the runtime code is JavaScript code that is generated by the TypeScript compiler. And it's also pretty common knowledge that JavaScript is quite fast, but TS itself is not.

alpaca128|11 months ago

And if this post was about a TS compiler that emitted x86 executables you would be wrong and find out that it is indeed ambiguous.